Amazon.com Inc. says it lost a Pentagon cloud contract valued at as much as $10 billion because of political interference by President Trump, according to the judge overseeing the case. The judge’s comments were the first public confirmation that Amazon cited bias by Trump as grounds to overturn the award to Microsoft. Trump has long criticized Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on matters such as the shipping rates his company pays the U.S. Amazon filed a lawsuit under seal with the court last month to formally protest its loss of the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract, also known as JEDI. The Pentagon’s JEDI cloud project is designed to consolidate the department’s cloud computing infrastructure and modernize its technology systems.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 05, 2019 23:37 UTC